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Category: Politics and Statesmanship

May 10, 2024May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

What Women Want: A Review of “Political Women” by Maggie Andrews

September 27, 2018May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

LaGuardia’s Sister, Eichmann’s Prisoner, Ravensbrück’s “Mother”

May 21, 2018May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

The Unusual Union That Led to the World’s First Feminist Government

January 25, 2018May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

A President’s Son-in-Law, Nepotism and Treason

January 18, 2018September 27, 2018 Victoria Martínez

Excerpted // Rescue or Death?

November 27, 2017May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

Gilded Age New York’s “King of Diamonds”

October 24, 2017May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

Countess Emilia Plater and the Perpetual Anomaly of the Woman Warrior

September 8, 2017August 2, 2018 Victoria Martínez

Excerpted // Mighty Lady, True Husband

August 16, 2017May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

The Lady King Who United Medieval Scandinavia

August 9, 2017May 27, 2026 Victoria Martínez

When Sweden Rescued 31,000 Non-Swedes from Nazi Germany

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